One more shrug from Claude happens at her response, this time just with one shoulder as he keeps his eyes out on the horizon they're meant to be watching. He's aware of how it sounds, just as he's every bit as aware only those who've experienced something along the same lines are the only ones who don't have some kind of physical or verbal recoil over it. Asking if that's the case for Ciri, however, is decidedly not his business at this point.
"Made it easier to get by is all it was. I'm sure it says more about me than anything else."
And it is far easier to stare at desert with nothing in it rather than thinking about the collapse of Libertas, or how working those rescue and infirmary shifts pushed him to team up with the military when he'd worked to avoid them for months. Here they are, and they'll return to what they left behind soon enough.
Maybe it's for that reason Claude doesn't feel the need to find anything else to say for a change, and why he doesn't bother break the quiet which falls between them after until it's time for other, lighter subjects to come up eventually. There'll be time enough for other talks later without soldiers overhearing whatever else might be said.
we can wrap this one here if that works!
"Made it easier to get by is all it was. I'm sure it says more about me than anything else."
And it is far easier to stare at desert with nothing in it rather than thinking about the collapse of Libertas, or how working those rescue and infirmary shifts pushed him to team up with the military when he'd worked to avoid them for months. Here they are, and they'll return to what they left behind soon enough.
Maybe it's for that reason Claude doesn't feel the need to find anything else to say for a change, and why he doesn't bother break the quiet which falls between them after until it's time for other, lighter subjects to come up eventually. There'll be time enough for other talks later without soldiers overhearing whatever else might be said.